Eric Rush
speaker
413 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
Eric Rush’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The first time we met him, he stood up in the room.
We were invited to meet him at a concert.
Then Kiri Takanui had given this concert.
And he stood up and he said, the All Blacks, you were heroes in the darkest hours.
Yeah, yeah, you know, laughed it off a bit, I guess.
But he said, I can see some of you are unbelieving.
He said, let me tell you this.
I was in Robben Island for 17 years.
And in 1981, the Springboks, the symbol of apartheid, they traveled to this place called New Zealand and they played this mythical team called the All Blacks.
Straight away, that was our team.
You know, and in the darkest hours, three o'clock in the morning, all the radios in the prison would be turned on with the guards listening to the test match.
He says, every time the spring box scored, all the guards would cheer.
He said, when the All Blacks scored, the prison would rise to its feet.
He said that.
So quite literally, you guys were our heroes in the darkest hours.
So it was real cool to hear that.
There's Kiwis everywhere, man.
There's Kiwis everywhere.
And most of them were coming down from London.
Most of them would come down from London.
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